Tove
Tove – feature film in 2020, screenplay by Eeva Putro, directed by Zaida Bergroth, production company Helsinki-Filmi and Anagram Sweden . Eeva Putro’s actor credit: support role (Maya Vanni)
Tove is a Finnish biographical drama film about the artist Tove Jansson. The film peeks into Jansson’s life between the war and the mid-1950s. The film had a budget of €3.4 million, making it the second most expensive film in Finland.
Tove premiered on 2 October 2020, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and sold abroad to over 50 countries, including the Nordic and Baltic countries, Russia, South Korea, Germany, and Japan.
Tove was Finland’s nominee for the Best International Oscar 2021. It won the Finnish Jussi Award for Best Picture and seven other awards, including directing, acting, cinematography, costume design, make-up and set design. It also had the most nominations, with ten. Eeva Putro won the Sylvi Award for Best Screenplay.
Christmas Comes to Moominvalley
Christmas Comes to Moominvalley – animated short film, 2022, screenplay by Eeva Putro, directed by Kari Juusonen and Jean-Michel Boesch, production: Gigglebug (Anttu Harlin), distributed by YLETV2. Other credits of Eeva Putro include Voice-over actor in the Finnish-speaking version (Salome) and translation from Finnish to Swedish.
Christmas Comes to Moominvalley is a 2D animated feature film (6 minutes) based on Tove Jansson’s novel The Spruce, as part of The Nordic Christmas Hour that was released in 2022 across the Nordics – in Finland by YLETV2. The programme featured six animation films based on the work of famous Nordic storytellers from Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Breeder
Breeder – a Danish feature film in the genre of horror 2020, directed by Jens Dahl (known for ”Pusher”), screenplay by Sissel Daalsgaard Thomsen, production company: Beofilm, starred by Sara Hjolt Ditlevsen, Anders Heinrichsen, Signe Egholm Olsen, Morten Holst, Eeva Putro: support role (Nika)
In 2021, Eeva Putro was shortlisted for the nomination for the best female supporting role for Robert Price, which is the Danis equivalent of the Oscars for her role of Nika.
Synopsis: A ruthless businesswoman is abducting young women as part of a gruesome bio-hacking experiment to reverse the ageing process. When Mia goes to investigate, she finds herself trapped, branded and tortured in an underground medical facility.
Elf Academy
Elf Academy – TV series 2019, directed by Jussi Lehtomäki, written by Kaisa Kuikkaniemi, starring Eeva Putro, Anna-Riikka Rajanen and Manoel Pinto. Henna Tanskanen, Mikko Penttilä, Juha Pulli, Minna Koskela and Timo Mann, production company Kaiho Productions, distributed by YLE.
Description: Elf Academy is a beloved Christmas TV series produced by Kaiho Productions and distributed by YLE.
The Elf Academy is the story of the country’s premier Christmas elf school, where a troll has slipped into the classroom among the new students. The troll must convince herself and others that she is a Christmas elf and unite a disparate class of elves to reach Santa Claus, who could fix her broken tail. Eeva Putro appeared in the series as the lovable elf character Kaardemumma in 24 episodes.
Women in Love
Women in Love – short film 2014, directed by Eeva Putro, written by Eeva Putro, starring Eeva Putro, Satu Järvinen, Iris Anttila, Jaakko Kiljunen, Konstantin Lehmann-Bärenklau.
Synopsis: The protagonist is on a first date with a charming lesbian woman and becomes concerned about the ambiguity of her date’s gender. Eventually, it turns out that her lover has a trauma from the past: she has been pressured into becoming a trans man.
Festivals: Tampere Film Festival 2015 (Finnish competition), Vinokino LGBTQI+ Film Festival 2014, Paris Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival 2014
Links:
https://vimeo.com/119930978
Buying a dildo
Buying a dildo – short film 2012, directed by Eeva Putro, written by Eeva Putro and Aretta Vähälä, starring Eeva Putro, Veera Vehmas, Aretta Vähälä, Tomi Walamies. The film was selected for numerous international film festivals and won the audience vote at the Kansas Out Here Now Film Festival in 2013.
Synopsis: A woman working in a bank promises her girlfriend she will finally buy the dildo after her working day.
Festivals: Vinokino LGBTQI+ Film Festivals 2012, Helsinki Short Film Festivals 2012, Tallinna – PÖFF 2012, Tampere Film Festival 2013, Kansas Out Here Now LGBTQI+ Film Festival 2013 (first audience price), Edinburg Filmguild New Cinema Programme 2013, Rostock Queer Film Festival 2013
Links:
https://vimeo.com/61719277
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